Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic k...
One always has hope for human nature
People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and wh...
That seemed to be the human pattern—reach out to the unknown and then make it into the sort of thing you left in the first place. In Holden’s experience, humanity’s drive out into the universe was may...
Human nature in time is engraved in history.
Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature
Needs pain and time to crystallized a bravery in the soul of human
The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at al...
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life....
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
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